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John Marchant Gallery, 37 Ship Street, Brighton and Hove (2025)

15/04/2025

"Three years ago, I heard a voice from Iran: 'Woman, Life, Freedom.' For me, this slogan was more than a call from my homeland - it was a universal roar. It was a demand for the right to live, to free our bodies from control. It was not just about Iran but about humanity - about reclaiming life itself.” Forouz Zarei Berlin, 2025

John Marchant Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Iranian artist Forouz Zarei.

Born in Tehran in 1984, and raised in the Iranian city of Abadan in the aftermath of the Iran Iraq war, Forouz Zarei studied Fine Art at Islamshahr Tehran University. She later moved to Berlin, where she currently resides with her partner and young family.

For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Forouz presents a collection of delicate and seemingly vulnerable, unframed paintings on paper, with red, blue, pinks and orange touches. We quickly realise that we are looking at gashes, wounds, barbed wire and faceless embryonic figures, hung up, tied down or pushed down by force, and that the lightness of that touch carries the sensitivity of an exposed nerve. These viscerally startling images are often accompanied by lines of Farsi poetry, that counteract and give space to our breathless reading of the paintings. Image: I Have A New Co**se Every Day (2015), Watercolour and gouache on paper, 100 x 70cm. This exhibition has been curated with Alison McKenna. For more information click on Linktree above.

28/03/2025

I urge everyone who has not seen Peter Hujar: Eyes Open In The Dark at Raven Row, London to go before it's too late. It closes April 6th. I was first introduced to Hujar's work by my boss, Nan Goldin, back in the late 90's. She had this wonderful 'portrait' of her friend Greer Lankton's legs (pic 1) in her West Village apartment, and many of Hujar's subjects - and Hujar himself - were friends of Nan's, particularly the incomparable Cookie Meuller (pic 2). I was given the opportunity to collate Cookie's brilliant writing not so long ago but I just couldn't get to it. That's one that got away... Hujar also did incredible landscape work, famously around the West Piers of NY, but often at night, when the streets were temporarily empty, though he would have had to pick his moment as the Meatpacking District (pic 3) was always busy with all sorts of trade at any time of day or night. I know many of the works at Raven Row well, but the portrait of Egyptian artist Nicolas Abdaklah Moufarrege (pic 4) really stunned me, with the exquisite delicacy of the eyelash shadows on his upper cheek... Thank you John Douglas Miller for bringing this milestone show together. Thank you Gary Schneider for such brilliant printing. Thank you Maureen Paley for everything you've done for Hujar's legacy and for our great chats. And thank you Vince Aletti for your intimate words from 1987, reproduced in the free catalogue. Lastly, if anyone would like to see Hujar's work but can't make it to London in time, come to the gallery and I will show you some rarities (pic 5)

26/03/2025

We just hit our two year anniversary! Thanks to everyone who has come in to the gallery or supported this endeavour in any other way. So much has happened... Here just a little selection of memories. Love to all. John x .eric .villard

21/03/2025

Opens today! Delaine Le Bas has done something wonderful yet again, this time at The White House in Dagenham. Details below. It's easy to get to on the Elizabeth Line. Delaine Le Bas: Stranger in Silver Walking on Air Create London commission at The White House 21 March – 27 September 2025
Friday, 28 February 2025

Delaine Le Bas artist residency at The White House, Dagenham. Photography by Eszter Halasi. Courtesy Create London.
Create London has commissioned artist and Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas to create a new installation exploring the hidden histories and resistance of Roma & Traveller communities. The new exhibition takes place at The White House on the Becontree Estate in Dagenham, East London.

Through textiles, sculptural objects and glasswork that form an immersive installation, Delaine Le Bas: Stranger in Silver Walking on Air explores the hidden histories and the artist’s own lived experiences of Roma & Traveller communities. Moving through the house, the artworks reveal glimpses of these often misunderstood and maligned narratives, transforming The White House into a dreamlike space of storytelling, resilience and creativity.

Entering the house, the walls are swathed in painted calico artworks featuring ‘The Stranger in Silver, Walking on Air’ – a profile silhouette of a hooded woman in a silver dress and heels. The Stranger is a figure that repeats throughout the house, every corner of which is activated and infused with elements that reflect the richness, complexity and resilience of Roma & Traveller life whilst investigating conceptions and the materiality of the domestic space. Portrait by atchintan

14/03/2025

We are very pleased to announce the availability of ten estate stamped copies of Jamie Reid’s extraordinary Avenging Angel edition from 2021.
In this work the avenging angel has flown in from Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne (1523) where he is leaping from his chariot. Here, with less cloth and more ‘heft’, he casts his ire on the Capitalist world, spinning through the starry cosmos. The original colour work (swipe through) from 1989 is a prime example of Reid’s output while working under the roof of Malcolm Garrett’s Assorted iMages in Shoreditch, where Reid had been brought in as a totem and given a studio, a colour copier and a free rein. The piece was later used as artwork for The Almighty’s album Crank (1994).
Jamie Reid's exhibition Eternal Ecstasy of late paintings and works on paper continues at the gallery until April 12th.
This print is a hand-pulled photopolymer plate etching printed full bleed in Ultra Black on Velin Arches Cream paper, with hand-torn edges.
Printed with Ian Brown at Volcanic, Brighton. Jamie Reid: Avenging Angel (2021/2025)
Size (cm): 65 x 50
£275 + p&p
Edition of ten estate stamped copies

£275.00

Link to purchase in Linktree in profile, or DM us through here.

07/03/2025

I finally made a sign... Thank you for everything (and apologies for mangling your brilliant style).

26/02/2025

What great pleasure this evening to see David Holah and Stevie Stewart at the Leigh Bowery bonanza. David and Stevie ran the great fashion company BodyMap and for some unexplained reason they put up with me! David and Stevie also did Michael Clark's ballet costumes and so much more... Here's David with his gorgeous self and Leigh back in the Stone Age. Against the odds, the show also looks great. Definitely needs a proper vada. Thank you Denis .shoes.reimagined

18/02/2025

Closing soon! If you've not made it along to Fabrice Cazenave's wonderful show Blooming Body, please take the opportunity to see the work this Thursday-Friday 10-6pm or Saturday 11-6pm. This wall drawing of a climbing rose that clambers along the garden wall at Charleston Farmhouse is exquisite, and temporary. On Monday it will be wiped away. In this room you can also see Cazenave's extraordinary drawings of the classical busts that atop the garden wall, looking in to the grounds within. Here these busts are envisioned as characters from Virginia Woolf's masterpiece The Waves, which was a profound influence on this and the accompanying body of work on display. Beautiful little vintage stools with custom jacquard seating by Please come. ps thank you Alison for the work soundrack!

06/02/2025

Fabrice Cazenave's two week sojourn at Charleston Farmhouse resulted in two series of beautiful drawings, both of what's installed as parts of our current show with Fabrice, entitled Blooming Body. The first of these is a sequence of loose, expressive drawings done in situ, partially under a state of self-hypnosis. The second are four 'watchers', drawn with an incredible degree of draughtsmanship on return to Paris (all 24.5 x 16.5cm, Pitt graphite on 120gsm Clairefontaine paper). These four plaster busts adorn the top of the Charleston garden wall, looking inward and on to the walled garden. In these works, Cazenave has taken the unusual step of drawing them from the rear, rendering their features and characters more unknowable. Each of these drawings also represents a specific character in Virginia Woolf's 1931 extraordinary and experimental novel The Waves. Illustrated above are friends Jinny, Rhoda and Susan, who in the novel reflect on their dead friend Percival ( the fourth drawing here). This trip was kindly sponsored by We are open Thurs-Sat until Feb 22nd and other times by appointment. Please come.

26/01/2025

A great visit to the distant shores of Margate today, to see Delaine and her show at Quench. Rags Of Evidence (25012025-16032025) is a new iteration of the show in Brighton in September, with added work and an extra shake of Vim. It's brilliant. Please go. I quote "Rags Of Evidence is a child born of rag & boning Grandparents, jumble sales and growing up being dressed differently and then choosing to use fabric, painting, embroidery & clothing as a way of be-ing. Some of the painted cloth I have worn while working, others have travelled across time with me, mine and their her-stories are here intertwined with new work made while here in Margate."

16/01/2025

Jan 16th - Jamie Reid's birthday. He would have been 78 this year had the Fates not had other plans. I was in Rotherham yesterday, talking students through a slide show of Jamie's work and discussing his approaches. I threw in some grisly details for fun and got them laughing, but overall I wanted them to understand the impact art can have on us all. Art can be made with so little and yet achieve so much. Jamie's work took many forms, and his interests were extraordinarily wide - he'd rather talk about John Pilger than the Pistols - but I believed in him and his work, and willl continue to do so always. Thank you Jamie. Happy Birthday, my friend. All Love. John xx ps images roughly sequential. We will be showing some of Jamie's later paintings and text pieces in March/April

07/01/2025

Please join us on Friday 6-8pm for the opening of Fabrice Cazenave's exhibition Blooming Body (runs until Feb 22nd). Part of the exhibition covers a series of drawings completed in the beautiful gardens of Charleston Farmhouse in September 2024. This series is made in part using self-hypnosis techniques to make energetic response marks in pencil over colour washes that refer to the late, September blooms in the garden - anemones, asters, tritonia and artichoke. From today, Fabrice will also be starting a special wall drawing in reference to this period, which we will also document here.

03/01/2025

FABRICE CAZENAVE: BLOOMING BODY
Opening 10 January 2025 6-8pm
11th Jan - 22nd Feb 2025
Please join us next Friday for our first event of 2025 - the opening of Fabrice Cazenave’s (Fr. 1975) second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Renowned for immaculate charcoal renderings of plantlife and microbial detail, Cazenave has also produced an extensive body of work under self-hypnosis, often making marks with dots and dashes that reflect his internal responses to external energies.

Following an extended September trip from Paris to the gardens of Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, Cazenave has utilised both techniques for two parallel series of work, both of which will be shown at the gallery, as well as a specially commissioned wall drawing, and new jacquard work. The first of these series are drawings of classical busts that line the walls of the garden at Charleston, but seen from behind as they guard the garden (see image above). Cazenave has linked these busts with four key characters from Virginia Woolf’s Modernist prose poem The Waves. The second body of work features much looser hypnosis-induced ‘aveugle’ drawing, over colour washes that refer to the late, September blooms in the garden - anemones, asters, tritonia and artichoke.

The prescience and legacy of the Bloomsbury Group’s fluid gender politics and open-mindedness have long been a source of interest to Cazenave. Their intertwining of art and craft is also now a commonality within contemporary art.

“I hold a stalk in my hand. I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world, through earth dry with brick, and damp earth, through veins of lead and silver.” Extract from The Waves by Virginia Woolf

28/12/2024

We are pleased to announce the opening of Fabrice Cazenave’s (Fr. 1975) second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Renowned for immaculate charcoal renderings of plantlife and microbial detail, Cazenave has also produced an extensive body of work under self-hypnosis, often making marks with dots and dashes that reflect his internal responses to external energies.

Following an extended September trip from Paris to the gardens of Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, Cazenave has utilised both techniques for two parallel series of work, both of which will be shown at the gallery, as well as a specially commissioned wall drawing, and new jacquard work. The first of these series are drawings of classical busts that line the walls of the garden at Charleston, but seen from behind as they guard the garden (see image above). Cazenave has linked these busts with four key characters from Virginia Woolf’s Modernist prose poem The Waves. The second body of work features much looser hypnosis-induced ‘aveugle’ drawing, over colour washes that refer to the late, September blooms in the garden - anemones, asters, tritonia and artichoke.

The prescience and legacy of the Bloomsbury Group’s fluid gender politics and open-mindedness have long been a source of interest to Cazenave. Their intertwining of art and craft is also now a commonality within contemporary art.

“I hold a stalk in my hand. I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world, through earth dry with brick, and damp earth, through veins of lead and silver.” Extract from The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Blooming Body opens Jan 11th and runs through February 22nd.

10/12/2024

As a final offering for Alison Lloyd's exhibition Contouring, we have produced a lovely, playful little booklet of a selection of posts from Alison's Instagram account. Alison was a prolific and candid user of IG, exploring her own work and offering invaluable insights into her practice. Selected and introduced by Alison's friend and collaborator Assunta Ruocco, this 28 pp booklet is free and available on request. We have printed 50 copies only, and have already given out a quantity during Saturday's wonderful Women In Revolt! talk by curator Linsey Young, so don't hesitate to get in touch. All we need is your interest and your address. This lovely document has been designed and produced by

25/11/2024

Delaine Le Bas: Universal Declaration of Human Right Pillowcase shirt in Black

2024 Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas’ hand-written Universal Declaration of Human Rights pillowcase tee with t*t zips, was originally launched Sept 6th 2024 on the opening of Delaine's new show at the gallery, Rags Of Evidence. We made only 25 of these in white with Derek Dunbar who worked very closely with Malcolm McLaren for years. The white edition is sold out.

We have now made a second edition in black. These feature raw seams and the 'ball and chain' zip detail that a few of the original S*x 'I Groaned With Pain' tees had. Released on Jamie Reid's Ragged Kingdom label. This shirt is available in Large only, and come signed and numbered by the artist on a swing tag at £195 + P&P.

Delaine’s artwork for this shirt also featured on billboards during the artist’s show Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding at Tramway, Glasgow. These billboards were a collaboration with John Marchant Gallery and Build Hollywood. Delaine is shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. .a.dunbar

22/11/2024

We are very pleased to invite you to join us at the gallery in Brighton for a very special event to close out Alison Lloyd’s exhibition, Contouring.
Curator of the exhibition Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970 - 1990 Linsey Young will present on the project for us at 3pm on December 7th. Alison Lloyd’s work is included in this important travelling exhibition (Tate, National Galleries of Scotland and Whitworth, Manchester) and we shall have an opportunity to contextualize her contribution within the wider curatorial framework.
The first of its kind in a mainstream institution, Women in Revolt! is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It shines a spotlight on how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Their art helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.
For those who have not yet seen the exhibition there is a six part podcast series available here.
Places are strictly limited so please use this Eventbrite link to book. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linsey-young-women-in-revolt-curators-talk-dec-7th-3pm-tickets-1091153793369?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2Ani82ra%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTgxMTI0OTI3Ni4xNzMyMjczMzc5%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AMTczMjI3MzM3OC4xLjAuMTczMjI3MzM3OC4wLjAuMA..

16/11/2024

Olivia Laing's new book A Garden Manifesto has arrived in the post, and I'm thrilled to say that it features not only two works by Alison Lloyd, but contributions from her brilliant sister Hilary Lloyd, and - curiously - myself. First picture here is a recent Polaroid work by Alison at Ogden Brook in the Peak District (2022), second is a detail of Houseplant (1977). The third picture is of Jamie Reid's great monumental OVA field work at Heligan in Cornwall and the fourth is me sowing wildflower seeds from the OVA at the site of H Block prison, Long Kesh, near Belfast. A Garden Manifesto: Edited by Olivia Laing and Richard Porter. "What do gardens mean and how can they change the world? A Garden Manifesto gathers radical visions rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists, among them Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Ana Mendieta, Dan Pearson and Eileen Myles. It’s a seed box for an uncertain future, packed with anarchic dreams of Eden-making and humming with resistance to the colonial project of homogenisation and destruction."

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Featuring William Blake, Joe Brainard, Jonny Bruce, John Clare, Gerry Dalton, Ellen Dillon, Baha Ebdeir, Alys Fowler, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Gaylene Gould, Green Guerillas, Joy Gregory, Fritz Haeg, Lubaina Himid, Philip H***e, Rosie Hudson, Derek Jarman, Chantal Joffe, Laura Joy, Jamaica Kincaid, Elisabeth Kley, Olivia Laing, Jeremy Lee, Siobhan Liddell, Alison Lloyd, Hilary Lloyd, Jo McKerr, Lee Mary Manning, Ana Mendieta, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Huw Morgan, Eileen Myles, Hussein Omar, Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library, Ian Patterson, Dan Pearson, Jean Perréal, Charlie Porter, Pat Porter, J. H. Prynne, Claire Ratinon, Jamie Reid, Lisa Robertson, Kuba Ryniewicz, Saadi, Sui Searle, Sei Shōnagon, Colin Stewart, Tabboo!, Edward Thomasson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Scott Treleaven, John Wieners, David Wojnarowicz, Matt Wolf and Sarah Wood

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